Fact check: NASA warning of six days of darkness is a hoax

An old hoax has resurfaced in a viral article that claims NASA recently announced Earth will go dark for six days in December.

An article titled "ALERT: NASA Confirms Earth Will Go Dark For 6 Days In December 2020" published by blog site Daily Buzz Live alleges that NASA warned the world would experience total darkness from Dec. 16-22.

"The world will remain dark for these 6 days, completely void of sunlight, due to a solar storm which will cause dust and space debris to block 90% of the sun," the article reads.

Included in the post is an emergency preparedness speech from "NASA Director Charles Bolden" encouraging people to prepare for any "attacks" that could take place.

USA TODAY reached out to the Daily Buzz Live for comment.

There have been no reports of six days of darkness and NASA confirmed that the article is a hoax.

NASA spokeswoman Tabatha Thompson told USA TODAY via email that the article is a hoax that has circulated off and on during the last decade.

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"NASA has not issued any statement with that false claim," Thompson said.

The video included in the claim is authentic; however, Bolden resigned in January 2017 and is no longer the NASA administrator, according NASA's website. Jim Frederick Bridenstine is the current NASA administrator and was sworn in on April 23, 2018.

When the hoax went viral in 2012, NASA took to its site to denounce the claim and wrote: "Neither NASA nor any other scientific organization is predicting such a blackout. The false reports on this issue claim that some sort of 'alignment of the Universe' will cause a blackout. There is no such alignment."

An old hoax has resurfaced in a viral article that claims NASA recently announced Earth will go dark for six days in December.

An article titled "ALERT: NASA Confirms Earth Will Go Dark For 6 Days In December 2020" published by blog site Daily Buzz Live alleges that NASA warned the world would experience total darkness from Dec. 16-22.

"The world will remain dark for these 6 days, completely void of sunlight, due to a solar storm which will cause dust and space debris to block 90% of the sun," the article reads.

Included in the post is an emergency preparedness speech from "NASA Director Charles Bolden" encouraging people to prepare for any "attacks" that could take place.

USA TODAY reached out to the Daily Buzz Live for comment.

There have been no reports of six days of darkness and NASA confirmed that the article is a hoax.

NASA spokeswoman Tabatha Thompson told USA TODAY via email that the article is a hoax that has circulated off and on during the last decade.

"NASA has not issued any statement with that false claim," Thompson said.

The video included in the claim is authentic; however, Bolden resigned in January 2017 and is no longer the NASA administrator, according NASA's website. Jim Frederick Bridenstine is the current NASA administrator and was sworn in on April 23, 2018.

When the hoax went viral in 2012, NASA took to its site to denounce the claim and wrote: "Neither NASA nor any other scientific organization is predicting such a blackout. The false reports on this issue claim that some sort of 'alignment of the Universe' will cause a blackout. There is no such alignment."